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Howard M. Gore, Assistant Secretary of Agriculture and Governor-elect of West Virginia, was officially appointed Secretary of Agriculture to succeed the late Henry Cantwell Wallace. The President made the appointment as a temporary measure. Secretary Gore's tenure of office will necessarily terminate on Mar. 4 next, when he becomes West Virginia's Governor...
...appropriation bills for the various Departments of the Government will be the first and most important business. All must be passed before Mar...
General Ismet has been President Mustafa Kemal's most able and loyal lieutenant. He first came into international prominence when he conducted the peace negotiations for the Turkish Republic at Lausanne (TIME, Mar...
...concerned. Some of our men misbehaved themselves grossly; some of their countrymen, excited and excitable, did the same-except that they were less to blame in that they acted on the spur of tension and without malice aforethought. But neither example of rowdyism should be given sufficient importance to mar the general effect of the whole. The French honestly did the best they knew how to do for us; and if the sleeping quarters were not what we had been accustomed to, and the transportation somewhat bizarre, and the crowds somewhat chilly-we should at least remember that the French...
Roald Amundsen, adventurer in the white wastes of the Earth's poles, knows the vicissitudes of life. Once he immortalized himself by sweeping to the southern tip of the imaginary line on which the world revolves. More recently, only a few months ago (TIME, Mar. 17), he went into bankruptcy, his substance expended in the Arctic. One of his few assets was the schooner Maud which he had left near Alaska to drift across trie pole in the Arctic icepack, while he went adventuring toward the pole by airplane. The failure of the airplane venture...